News & Events 2021-22

March 2022

  • 31st March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Countdown 2030 Europe webinar: ‘COVID-19 and SRH in low- and middle-income countries’

  • 30th March: The APPG on PDRH and UNFPA held a joint SWOP report launch event in Parliament: ‘Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy’

  • 30th March: The House of Commons voted on the decision to extend telemedicine provision for abortion – the vote was won 215 to 188

  • 30th March: Baroness Sugg’s Hymenoplasty amendment to the Health and Care Bill was debated in the House of Lords

  • 29th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the DFID SC inquiry ‘Extreme poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals’

  • 24th March: The APPG on PDRH disseminated BPAS/MSI/RCOG telemedicine postcards to MPs

  • 22nd March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the CSW IIGH/gender health hub webinar ‘Charting Transferability: Advancing gender equality in the response to climate change’

  • 22nd March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the CSD FCDO webinar ‘Equity and Inclusion for Adolescent Girls Everywhere: Policy and advocacy approaches to promote disability inclusion’

  • 22nd March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the CSW webinar ‘Democracy Without SRH is an Empty Promise’   

  • 17th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the FIGO ‘COVID during pregnancy: an update’ webinar.

  • 17th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the IPAS and UNFPA CSW webinar ‘Climate Justice and SRHR: the Criticality of Women’s Leadership’

  • 17th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at The Pleasure Project webinar ‘Putting Pleasure into action: how to do pleasure based sexual health’

  • 16th March: APPG on PDRH and EPF hosted a joint briefing event in Parliament ‘Anti-gender Activism against Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health’

  • 15th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the CSW66 side event webinar ‘SRHR & Climate Justice: Advancing a Human Rights-Based Approach’

  • 10th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at UNFPA webinar: Meeting with Ian McFarlane, new UNFPA Director for the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships

  • 10th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the George Institute webinar ‘Breaking the bias: gender transformative policies, inclusive agendas, and research insight’

  • 9th March: The APPG on PDRH had a stall at the Care International Women’s Day event in Parliament

  • 7th March: The APPG on PDRH Parliamentary & Policy Advisor attended the University of Bristol Law School closed strategy meeting  ‘Cessation of Telemedical Abortion Services’

  • 7th March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Pre-CSW GPA/EPF webinar ‘Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Climate Change’

  • 3rd March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists International Women’s Day event

  • 2nd March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the SheDecides et al webinar ‘Young People’s Perspectives on Sexual Wellbeing and Sexual Consent’

  • 1st March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the International Development Committee's inquiry into Extreme Poverty

  • 1st March: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Reproductive Health Supplies webinar: ‘Menstrual Health Waste Management’

 

February 2022

  • 28th February: Baroness Sugg asked an oral question on making investment in SRHR in the Government’s International Development Strategy

  • 28th February: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the MPT Regulatory Pathways webinar: ‘Case Studies from MPT product developers’

  • 24th February: APPG on PDRH was represented at Population Matters webinar: Let's Rethink Population

  • 23rd February: APPG on PDRH staff attended a strategy meeting with UNFPA

  • 23rd February: Members of the APPG on PDRH attended a round table briefing meeting with the UK SRHR Network

  • 21st February: The APPG on PDRH Parliamentary & Policy Advisor attended a meeting with Plan International UK

  • 14th February: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the WHO/Pleasure Project webinar: ‘Why SRHR programmes should incorporate sexual pleasure’

  • 8th February: The APPG on PDRH was represented at UK APPG on SRH webinar on Long-acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)

  • 8th February: The APPG on PDRH was represented at UNFPA/Gates Foundation webinar: ‘Advancing Human Rights in FP: The agenda for the next decade’

  • 1st February: The APPG on PDRH submitted an abstract (Girls’ education and SRHR Hearing Report) to the FP Conference to be held in Thailand in November

 

January 2022

  • 27th January: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the FP2030 webinar: ‘Measurement report 2021’

  • 31st January: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the CCR webinar: ‘Global Impacts of US Regression in Abortion Access’

 

December 2021

  • 14th December: APPG members and staff attended the virtual FCDO HSS and Ending Preventable Deaths Action Plan launch

  • 9th December: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the FP Conference webinar: ‘The Pulse of Family Planning with Dr T - A Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day Conversation’

  • 8th December: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the ICRW webinar: ‘Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Findings & Recommendations’

  • 6th December: The Co-Chairs of the APPG on PDRH sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on ODA and SRHR and invited her to meet with members

  • 1st December – Baroness Sugg spoke at the launch of RUSI’s essay collection ‘Britain as a Force for Good: Six Ways to Turn a Slogan into Reality’

 

November 2021

  • 30th November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Al for Good hybrid event: ‘The case for digital health: Accelerating progress to achieve UHC’

  • 25th – 26th November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the EPF secretariat retreat, Barcelona

  • 24th November: UK SRHR Network round table briefing meeting on UK Government asks on FP2030

  • 23rd November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at CRR webinar: ‘Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings’

  • 18th November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the Women Deliver webinar: ‘Women Deliver 2023 Passing the Arrow’ – 2023 conference, July 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda

  • 18th November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the ICRW webinar: ‘The Pivotal Role of the Private Sector in Advancing Gender Equity: A conversation on gender in supply chains, sustainability commitments & community engagement’

  • 18th November: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the FP 2030 webinar: ‘Moving Forward Together to Transform the Future’

  • 16th November: APPG on PDRH was represented at the Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC) event.

  • 15th November: APPG on PDRH staff met with Organon

  • 9th November: APPG on PDRH was represented at DFID SC inquiry into UK Aid

  • 8th November: APPG on PDRH was represented at numerous COP26 side events on FP/SRHR and Climate Change including the UNFPA event: ‘Removing barriers to health and education: An essential climate adaptation and resilience strategy and UNFPA event: ‘Addressing Climate Adaptation through Strengthening Health and Protection Systems Confirmation’ and PMNCH: ‘Building adolescents' resilience to climate change’

 

October 2021

  • 26th October: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the APPG on SRH event: ‘Investing in Women’s Lives: A Lifecourse Approach to SRH’  

  • 21st – 22nd October: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the EPF Parliamentary Conference, Warsaw, Poland virtually and Baroness Northover attended the EPF Executive Committee meeting and presented APPG activities and her successful nomination to the Executive Committee

  • 20th October: The APPG on PDRH was represented at the UNFPA webinar: ‘Accelerating adolescent SRHR for demographic dividend(s)’

  • 12th October: Baroness Sugg asked an oral question on virginity testing and hymenoplasty in the House of Lords.

 

September 2021 

  • 29th September: The APPG on PDRH Parliamentary & Policy Advisor attended the UK SRHR Network meeting with FCDO intervention on FCDO coms tool: ‘3 Es’ of educating girls, empowering women and ending violence and reports to be published Gender Vision update and Ending Preventable Deaths Action Plan

  • 28th September: Members and the APPG on PDRH Parliamentary and Policy Advisor attended the launch of EPF’s European Abortion Atlas.

  • 23rd September: Members and the APPG on PDRH Parliamentary and Policy Advisor attended the EPF/DSW webinar, ‘Access to contraception in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic’, at which Dame Diana Johnson MP, Chair APPG SRH spoke.

  • 22nd September: Baroness Sugg met with MSI Reproductive Choices and the Margaret Pyke Trust to discuss family planning and SRHR at COP26.

  • 22nd September: Members and the APPG on PDRH Parliamentary and Policy Advisor attended ICAI’s session on UK aid ties with China

  • 20th September: Members and THE APPG ON PDRH PARLIAMENTARY AND POLICY ADVISOR  attended the Ford Foundation webinar on child marriage.

  • 18th – 26th September: Members participated in the Wednesday for Women event highlighting the link between the fight for climate change and access to voluntary family planning in Parliament Square and signed a letter to Alok Sharma MP, COP26 President on climate justice and equality.

  • 17th September: Baroness Hussein-Ece and Baroness Sugg signed the HRC 48 Joint Statement on Abortion

  • 16th September: Baroness Sugg spoke at the EPF/DSW Donors Delivering for SRHR 2021 Report launch

  • 14th September: Members and the APPG on PDRH Parliamentary and Policy Advisor attended the webinar, ‘Ending Virginity Testing & Hymenoplasty: Introducing Criminal Justice Responses & Raising Awareness’.

  • 7th September: Baroness Barker chaired the APPG on HIV & AIDS meeting with UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima.

  • 6th September: The APPG on PDRH submitted written evidence to the FCDO’s international development strategy consultation.

 

August 2021

  • 26th August: Together with the APPG on HIV & AIDS, the APPG on SRH, and the APPG on LGBT+ Rights, the APPG on PDRH co-signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary on women and girls in Afghanistan.

  • 18th – 21st August: Baroness Barker attended the Copenhagen Human Rights and LGBTI+ conference virtually, supported by EPF.

 

July 2021

  • 28th – 29th July: Members participated in the Global Education Summit, London.

  • 21st July: Members attended the UNFPA webinar, ‘World Population and Gender Equality in the Post-Covid Era’.

  • 19th July: Members attended the APPG SRH webinar, ‘Telemedicine – a new chapter for abortion care’.

 

June 2021

  • 24th June: Members signed the Women’s Right to Safe Abortion petition demanding that Japan abolish its requirement for male permission to obtain abortion care.

  • 22nd June: Baroness Sugg spoke at the EPF/GPA/AIDOS G8 High Level Parliamentary Consultation: ‘Placing Gender back at the Centre of Global Health and Development Policies’.

  • 10th June: In collaboration with EPF, the APPG on PDRH launched in collaboration with EPF its new hearing report on girls’ education and SRHR with Helen Grant MP as the keynote speaker.

  • 9th June: Baroness Sugg joined the NGO 'Wednesday for Women' activities, including the walk to No 10 Downing Street.

  • 4th June: Baroness Sugg signed the joint APPG on Health G7 letter to the Prime Minister highlighting the importance of UK aid to SRHR.


May 2021

  • 26th May: The APPG on PDRH Parliamentary & Policy Advisor attended a UK SRHR Network meeting with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office presentations.

  • 19th May: Members including Baroness Blackstone and Baroness Sugg spoke in the House of Lords Queen’s Speech debate in support of UK Aid to SRHR.

  • 14th May: The APPG on PDRH issued a statement on UK aid cuts.

  • 13th May: Members attended the BPAS webinar, ‘Pregnancy choices during the pandemic: Are they here to stay?’

  • 11th May: The APPG on PDRH and EPF sent a letter to the Prime Minister on the importance of addressing SRHR at the G7.

  • 5th May: Baroness Sugg spoke at the UK launch of UNFPA’s State of the World Population Report 2021, ‘My body is my own: Claiming the rights to autonomy and self-determination’.

  • 5th May: Select members attended the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) virtual roundtable, ‘Guaranteeing Undocumented Migrant Women’s Access to Affordable Maternal Healthcare in the EU’.

  • May: Members signed the Italian draft resolution countering formalising/furthering the Holy See’s observer status at the WHO.

April 2021

  • 29th April Baroness Sugg met with the UK SRHR Network to discuss UK aid cuts.

  • 29th April: Baroness Sugg co-hosted a briefing for Peers on the Global Partnership for Education and the impact of Covid-19.

  • 28th April: Baroness Sugg had a virtual meeting with Wendy Morton MP to discuss UK aid cuts.

  • 26th April: The APPG on PDRH Policy Advisor attended a briefing meeting with the UK SRHR Network and FCDO.

  • 21st April: The APPG on PDRH Policy Advisor attended a virtual meeting with EPF and the Scottish APPG on SRH and Blood Borne Viruses.

  • 20th April: The APPG on PDRH Policy Advisor attended the Development Media International webinar, ‘Accelerating progress in family planning: How can we double the uptake of modern contraceptives by 2030?’

  • 14th April: Members attended the virtual launch of UNFPA’s State of the World Population Report 2021, ‘My body is my own: Claiming the rights to autonomy and self-determination’.

  • 12th April: Members attended the Save the Children webinar, ‘Ending child marriage in West Africa, enhancing policy implementation and budgeting, Niger and Sierra Leone’.

  • 12th April: The APPG on PDRH Policy Advisor attended the Gates Foundation virtual meeting of the Family Planning Advocacy Team.